Will Novell Adopt The LTSP Project?

SafeTinspector writes "Yesterday I attended a Novell/HP Linux seminer "Delivering & Deploying Linux Across the Enterprise" Among the boring and expected stuff, the Novell representative had several slides in his presentation claiming that Novell is going to get heavily involved with LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) to bring policy based security and administration to the LTSP similar to those found in Microsoft and Citrix terminal servers--probably through their venerable Zenworks product line. Also heavily hinted at would be an install wizard provided by Novell that would greatly simplify the installation and configuration of LTSP, which is currently quite complex. I can find no hard information about this on LTSP or Novell websites, nor any information within Google newsgroup search. Does anyone know more about this? On a side note, the laptops of both the HP rep and Novell rep were running SuSE Linux Desktop with Ximian XD2 installed and the presentation was made using OpenOffice Presentation."

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Why dont LTSP/Novell use NoMachine's NXtechnology?

[moonwind]

To me it seems pretty stupid that Novell/SUSE/LTSP arent using NoMachine's brilliant and highly efficient and GPL'd NX technology.

After all, they could see during last LinuxTag and last Linux-Kongress how well this works even over a modem or ISDN connection with as little as 20-40 kBit/sec.!!

Not only does NX speed up Unix-type X connections with a turbo charger, but also Windows RDP and general VNC sessions.

In the case of X, the avarage gain is a ratio of 70:1 for an office productivity sesson (KDE/destkop, KMail/mailer, Konqueror/filemanager, OpenOffice/wordprocessor and Mozilla/webbrowser all open and in use), when you combine the highest level of compression, with the intelligent cache and roundtrip-elimination NX provides so reliably.

Pretty stupid by their technicians as well as their marketeers, if you ask me.